Smoke curls over a border town, rising from streets torn by rubble and echoed by distant gunfire. Families clutch what they can carry, ...
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Dec
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Dec
Recently, I’ve been brought face-to-face with how the world around me can impact how I feel and define the moment I’m exper...
05
Dec
The term gaslighting comes from the 1944 Hollywood movie Gaslight, about a Victorian woman (Ingrid Bergman) whose new husband (Charles ...
02
Dec
There are moments that divide your life into “before” and “after.” For me, that moment came on May 19, 2000—the day my four-year-old so...
27
Nov
Life has a way of testing the foundations we think are solid. One month you’re moving steadily through your plans, and the next you’re ...
25
Nov
As a Westerner, trying to develop on the eightfold path can be a head-scratching process. The Buddha’s teachings to renounce pleasure-s...
20
Nov
It was about 2 a.m., phone glowing on my face, when I typed four words that would change everything: “how to be happy.” I s...
19
Nov
When the mind begins to quiet, something beautiful happens. A new layer starts to appear—the intuitive mind. It’s hard to explain, beca...
13
Nov
I plug my daughter’s middle school address into Google Maps to see which way is the least congested, and then turn left to go the prett...
11
Nov
If you look closely, there is a kind of seeing that happens before the eyes open. Before recognition, before the mind decides what a th...